English 10: Intro to Literature, Reading Schedule
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[edit] Tuesday 8/08 Short Story
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1. Reading a Story p.3-22
- “The Appointment in Samarra” – W. Somerset Maugham
- “The Fox and the Grapes” –Aesop
- “Independence” – Chuang Tzu
- “Godfather Death” – Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
- “A&P” – John Updike
Prepare reading questions p.21 for discussion
Write a 1/2-page summary of “A&P” (to be collected)
[edit] Wednesday 8/09 Short Story
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2. Point of View p. 23-44
- “A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
- "The Tell-Tale Heart” – Edgar Allen Poe
28. Writing about a Story, p. 1094 - 1104
Prepare a discussion question on either or both of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
[edit] Thursday 8/10 Short Story
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3. Character p. 46-82
- “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” – Katherine Anne Porter
- “Everyday Use” – Alice Walker
- “Cathedral” – Raymond Carver
27. Writing about Literature 1069-1093
Prepare a discussion question on one or all of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
[edit] Monday 8/14 Short Story
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4. Setting p.84-121
- “The Storm” – Kate Chopin
- “Greasy Lake” – T. Coraghessan Boyle
- “A Pair of Tickets” – Amy Tan
Prepare a discussion question on one or all of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
[edit] Tuesday 8/15 Short Story
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5. Tone and Style p.122-160
- “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Ernest Hemingway
- "Barn Burning” – William Faulkner
- “Saboteur” – Ha Jin
Prepare a discussion question on one or all of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
[edit] Wednesday 8/16 Short Story
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6. Theme p.162-185
- “Dead Men’s Path” – Chinua Achebe
- “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” – Luke 15:11-32
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prepare a discussion question on one or all of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
[edit] Thursday 8/17 Short Story
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7. Symbol p.186- 215
- “The Chrysanthemums” – John Steinbeck
- “The Lottery” – Shirley Jackson
- “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Paper 1 Draft DUE for Peer Review. Bring THREE copies to class.
[edit] Monday 8/21 Poetry
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Poetry p.306-307; 9. Reading a Poem p. 308-323
- “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” – William Butler Yeats
- “Piano” – D.H. Lawrence
- “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” – Adrienne Rich
- “Sir Patrick Spence” – Anonymous
- “Out, Out –” – Robert Frost
- “My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning
- “Ask Me” – William Stafford
11. Words p. 349- 367
- “This is Just to Say” – William Carlos Williams
- “Down, Wanton, Down!” – Robert Graves
- “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, For You” – John Donne
- “Friend, On This Scaffold Thomas More Lies Dead” – J. V. Cunningham
- “Grass” – Carl Sandburg
- “Upon Julia’s Clothes”
Write a 1 page reading response to one of the assigned poems.
PAPER 1 FINAL DRAFT DUE
[edit] Tuesday 8/22 Poetry
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10. Listening to a Voice p.324-347
- “My Papa’s Waltz” – Theodore Roethke
- “For a Lady I Know” – Countee Cullen
- “The Author to Her Book” – Anne Bradstreet
- “To a Locomotive in Winter” – Walt Whitman
- “I Like to See It Lap the Miles” – Emily Dickinson
- “To the Desert” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- “White Lies” – Natasha Trethewey
- “Luke Havergal” – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- “Hawk Roosting” – Ted Hughes
- “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth
- “Journal Entry” – Dorothy Wordsworth
- “Theme for English B” – Langston Hughes
- “Sous-Entendu” Anne Stevenson
- “The X in My Name” – Francisco X. Alarcón
- “The Red Wheelbarrow” – William Carlos Williams
- “Oh No” – Robert Creeley
- “To the Unknown Citizen” – W.H. Auden
- “Rites of Passage” – Sharon Olds
- “The Golf Links” – Sarah N. Cleghorn
- “Dulce et Decorum Est” - Wilfred Owen
- “Bilingual/Bilingüe” – Rhina Espaillat
- “The Workbox” - Thomas Hardy
Do Writing Assignment p. 347 – (½ - 1 page)
[edit] Wed. 8/23 Poetry
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12. Saying and Suggesting p.368-376
- “Cargoes” – John Masefield
- “London” – William Blake
- “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” – Wallace Stevens
- “Epitaph” – Timothy Steele
- “Fire and Ice” – Robert Frost
- “Tears, Idle Tears” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” Emily Dickinson
13. Imagery p.377-388
- “In a Station of the Metro” – Ezra Pound
- “The Piercing Chill I Feel” – Taniguchi Buson
- “The Winter Evening Settles Down” – T.S. Eliot
- “Root Cellar” – Theodore Roethke
- “The Fish” – Elizabeth Bishop
- “Fork” – Charles Simic
- “Pied Beauty” – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “The Falling Flower” – Arakida Moritake
- “Heat-Lightning Streak” – Matsuo Basho
- “In the Old Stone Pool” – Matsuo Basho
- “On the One-Ton Temple Bell” – Tamiguchi Buson
- “I Go” – Tamiguchi Buson
- “Only One Guy” – Kobayashi Issa
- “Cricket” – Kobayashi Issa
- “Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art” – John Keats
- “Image” – T.E. Hulme
- “Driving to Town to Mail A Letter” – Robert Bly
- “Not Waving But Drowning” – Stevie Smith
Do Writing Assignment p.388, 1 page
[edit] Thursday 8/24 Poetry
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14. Figures of Speech p.389-402
- “The Eagle” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” – William Shakespeare
- “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” – Howard Moss
- “Flower in the Crannied Wall” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “To See a World in a Grain of Sand” – William Blake
- “Metaphors” – Sylvia Plath
- “Simile” – N. Scott Momaday
- “The Wind” – James Stephens
- “You Fit Into Me” – Margaret Atwood
- “The Cathedral Is” – John Ashbery”
- “Leaving Forever” – Denise Levertov
- “The Suitor” – Jane Kenyon
- “The Secret Sits” – Robert Frost
- “Coward” – A. R. Ammons
29. Writing about a poem p. 1107-1124
Do Exercise p.395 “What is Similar” 1-7
[edit] Monday 8/28 Poetry
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15. Sound p.403- 417
- “True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance” - Alexander Pope
- “Who Goes with Fergus?” - William Butler Yeats
- “Recital” - John Updike
- "Eight O’Clock” - A. E. Housman
- “Upon Julia’s Voice” - Robert Herrick
- “The splendor falls on castle walls” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “On my boat on Lake Cayuga” - William Cole
- “The Hippopotamus” - Hilaire Belloc
- “God’s Grandeur” - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- “In Memoriam John Coltrane” – Michael Stillman
- “Full fathom five thy father lies” - William Shakespeare
16. Rhythm p.418- 434
- “We Real Cool” - Gwendolyn Brooks
- “Break, Break, Break” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- “On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm” - Max Beerbohm
- “Counting-out Rhyme” - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “When I was one-and-twenty” - A. E. Housman
- “Beat! Beat! Drums!” - Walt Whitman
- “Song of the Powers” - David Mason
Do Writing assignment p.433 OR Writing Assignment p.417 – 1 - 1&1/2 pg
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17. Closed Form p.435 – 452
- “This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable” – John Keats
- “Counting the Beats” – Robert Graves
- “Bonny Barbara Allen” – Anonymous
- “Ballad of Birmingham” – Dudley Randall
- “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” – William Shakespeare
- “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, and Why” – Edna St.Vincent Millay
- “Acquainted With the Night” – Robert Frost
- “America” – Claude McKay
- “First Poem For You” – Kim Addonizio
- “Scenes From the Playroom” – R.S. Gwynn
- “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” – Dylan Thomas
- “Triolet” – Robert Bridges
- “Sestina” – Elizabeth Bishop
Write a 1 page reading response to one of the assigned poems
[edit] Wednesday 8/30 Poetry
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18. Open Form p.435 – 452
- “Ancient Stairway” – Denise Levertov
- “Buffalo Bill’s” – E.E. Cummings
- “For the Anniversary of My Death” – W. S. Merwin
- “The Heart” – Stephen Crane
- “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” – Walt Whitman
- “The Garret” – Ezra Pound
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” – Wallace Stevens
- “In Just —” – E. E. Cummings
- “I Shall Paint My Nails Red” – Carole Satyamurti
- “Popcorn-can Cover” – Lorine Niedecker
- “Facing It” – Yusef Komunyakaa
- “I, Too” – Langston Hughes
Do Writing Assignment p.466
[edit] Thursday 8/31 Poetry
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19. Symbol p.467 – 478
- “The Boston Evening Transcript” – T.S. Eliot
- “The Lightning is a Yellow Fork” – Emily Dickinson
- “Neutral Tones” – Thomas Hardy
- “The Parable of the Good Seed” – Matthew 13:24-30 (King James)
- “The World” – George Herbert
- “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost
- “The Beaks of Eagles – Robinson Jeffers
- “The Flight” – Sara Teasdale
- “Carrie” – Ted Kooser
- “Anecdote of the Jar” – Wallace Stevens
20. Myth and Narrative p.479 – 493
- “Nothing Gold Can Stay” – Robert Frost
- “The Oxen” – Thomas Hardy
- “The World is Too Much With Us” – William Wordsworth
- “Helen” – H.D.
- “Medusa” – Louise Bogan
- “Cinderella” – Anne Sexton
- “Lady Lazarus” – Sylvia Plath
Paper Draft 2 DUE for peer review. Bring THREE copies to class.
[edit] Monday 9/4 LABOR DAY – NO CLASS
[edit] Tuesday 9/5 Drama
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Drama p.566
22. Reading a Play p.567 – 597
- “Trifles” – Susan Glaspell
- “Beauty” – Jane Martin
Prepare a discussion question on either or both of these stories.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion.
PAPER 2 FINAL DRAFT DUE
[edit] Wednesday 9/6 Drama
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25. The Modern Theater p.775 – 778
- A Dolls House Act 1 p.779-805
Do Act I questions p.843
Write a 1/2 page reading response to the play
[edit] Thursday 9/7 Drama
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25. The Modern Theater
- A Dolls House Act 2 p. 805 – 824
Do Act II questions, p.843
Prepare a discussion question on the play.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion
[edit] Monday 9/11 Drama
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25. The Modern Theater
- A Dolls House Act 2 p. 824 – 843
30. Writing About a Play p. 1127 – 1138
Do Act III questions, p.843
Do General Questions, p.843-844
[edit] Tuesday 9/12 Drama
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25. The Modern Theater p.844 – 846, p.863
- The Cuban Swimmer p.847 - 862
Prepare a discussion question on the play.
Write a ½ page response to your own question to begin discussion
[edit] Wednesday 9/13
Review for Final Exam
[edit] Thursday 9/14
FINAL EXAM
